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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:52:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        dervish@bantu.cl.msu.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What are the advantages of ELF kernels?
Message-ID:  <199901112152.NAA25190@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199901112124.NAA97427@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Jan 11, 1999  1:24: 1 pm"

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According to Matthew Dillon:
> 
>     But, most importantly, there has been a general trend towards ELF in the
>     last decade and getting on that bandwagon is important, especially if we
>     want to maintain native compatibility with Linux and other operating 
>     systems.  The importance of maintaining compatibility cannot be 
>     underestimated.

Actually, hasn't FSF dropped support/development of a.out tools.
So, if FreeBSD wants to continue to use FSF compiler technology,
then we are compelled to move forward to ELF.

-- 
Steve

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